I don’t think I’ve posted a story about Mobile and Football being related, before – there’s always a first! Apparently the Orange Future of Football Report states that technology will infiltrated the beautiful game much sooner than we think. There are a number of potentially applicable areas for mobile technology to be utilised – highlights…
UK: knives are out already for Mobile sales at Xmas 08!
No sooner have we crossed the mid-point of February (highlighted nicely with Valentine’s Day!), than a story about Xmas 08 appears – stop the madness! Where will it all end!? Anyway, this story is about the battlelines being drawn up for Christmas as regards what the “hero” devices might be – in the Prepay segment…
More on 3D: with and without hardware acceleration…
Following on from my post yesterday about the best 3D handsets, I’ve come across this absolute nugget of a story, which is also a remnant from MWC. Imagination Techologies had a stand at MWC which compared the N81 (without dedicated 3D hardware) and the Nokia N95 (which does have) – so this was the N81…
Top 10 phones for 3D performance
Pocketgamer has been busy, working out which handsets on the market have the best 3D performance – of course, this is a somewhat subjective measure, because as anyone familiar with benchmarking knows, if you give a processor a task it excels at compared with others, it is bound to win! Anyhoo, the test in question…
Acision ports Vodafone UK to next-gen messaging
Acision has announced that has begun migration to it’s next-gen IP voice mesaging platofrm. As well as supporting existing messaging formats such as voicemail and SMS, newer formats such as mobile instant messaging will also be possible – and with good reason: next-gen messaging revenues have been predicted to be worth $12.7bn in W. Europe…
SE: new interface for selected devices
Ericsson have launched the “Ericsson Multimedia Communication Suite (MCS)”, with the goal of integrating web 2.0 content feeds in to the UI. The UI will be making an appearance on select devices, such as the SE W760i End users will have access to new services from existing applications – so for example, knowing presence information…
Mobile Operators teaming up against child abuse
MNOs across Europe are teaming up in the battle against child pornography being disributed via the mobile internet. The GSMA is launching the (not particularly snappily-named) “Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Content” – which is made up of most of the major OpCo groups. The group will use certain procedures to remove content from…
PacketVideo Mobile Broadcast Receiver: DVB-H to WiFi
PacketVideo used MWC to launch their Mobile Broadcast Receiver Product – which is a smallish device that receives DVB-H signals, and then streams them out over WiFi – clever! DVB-H is a component of the constantly hot news that is Mobile TV, and the fact that companies are looking to deliver these “DVB-H dongles”, shows…
Sony Ericsson CTO makes some good points
The Register had a chat with Mats Lindoff at MWC, and the resulting conversation some good points made in it – you can read the full thing here, but below, for brevity, is the bulleted-version: On why WinMo for the X1: SE need to have a broad portfolio On X1 sales volumes: not expected to…
Polymer Vision’s Readius gets hands-on at MWC
We have mentioned the very interesting Polymer Vision Readius before, but at MWC the Readius was out in the wild, and had people playing with it. TechDigest got some time with the device, which you can read about here – below find some key points which I thought were the most salient: QVGA, 5 inch…